Neil Griffin in conversation with Deborah Campbell
Downtown Victoria
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-Munro's Books, 1108 Government Street, Victoria, British Columbia, CA, V8W1Y2
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-Munro's Books, 1108 Government Street, Victoria, British Columbia, CA, V8W1Y2
Join us as we celebrate the launch of "Endings: Encounters With Extinction" by local author, Neil Griffin! The evening will include a compelling conversation led by award-winning journalist and author, Deborah Campbell.
Griffin is a writer and naturalist from Calgary, Alberta. Raised on the prairies and trained as a wildlife biologist, for over a decade he tracked the disappearing and the dead of our world, from Canada's boreal forests to the Amazon basin, from Ethiopia's Afar desert to the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda, before giving up the glitz and glamour of tropical fieldwork for the financial stability of freelance writing. He holds an MFA from the University of Victoria, where he is an instructor in the Department of Writing.
Written with curiosity, compassion, and a surprising humour, "Endings" is an eye-opening journey through extinction-from the fossil record to the field biologist's notebook, from myth to memory. In bearing witness to what we've lost, Griffin discovers something unexpected: that even in an age of endings, wonder and hope remain defiantly alive.
What: Neil Griffin in conversation with Deborah Campbell
Where: Munro's Books - 1108 Government St
When: Wednesday, September 23rd from 7:00-8:30pm (doors at 6:30)
How: This event is free to attend